Psychology
Key Stage 5 – A Level
We teach the AQA specification (linear A level) to students.
We are the largest subject in Sixth Form; currently 90 Lower Sixth students and 40 Upper Sixth students. Students receive 10 taught hours per fortnight in the subject from 2 specialist teachers.
We encourage cooperation with local universities (e.g. Portsmouth, Southampton & Winchester etc) to carry out psychological research.
We also invite guest speakers from various areas of Psychology, for example cognitive neuroscience and forensic Psychologists who work on serious crimes such as murder.
We run trips to see eminent psychologists speak, such as Zimbardo and Loftus. In the second year students also have the opportunity to attend a conference to hear people who have served a life sentence for murder talk about their experiences in prison.
Students are encouraged to do wider reading and apply their knowledge of psychology to real life.
AQA A Psychology specification (7181 and 7182)
7181 (AS)
- Social influence
- Memory
- Attachment
- Approaches in psychology
- Psychopathology
- Research methods
7182 (A2)
- Social influence
- Memory
- Attachment
- Psychopathology
- Approaches in psychology
- Biopsychology
- Research methods
- Forensic psychology
- Issues and debates in psychology
- Relationships
- Schizophrenia